Or a half-dozen jihadis with a $5,000 SAM and one with binoculars. Spot jet contrails, point everyone that way and let ‘em rip, pilot now has a biiig problem.
Well, the North Vietnamese moved their “static” SAM launchers - you know, the old ones with the Soviet-laid fixed position star pattern and hundreds of feet of mechanical and electrical control cables between every rocket launcher and radar and control station - every night, and twice during cease fire.
They were shooting 15-10 surface to air missiles for every US jet hit, and shooting 20 for every kill - not bad ratio.
Then, as now, the democrat administration was telling the North Viet’s when and where we would bomb up north - so the NV “civilians” would no be hit. Har, har.